Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city orchestras existed in many places, the greatest instrumental performers still had to win royal support. These musicians had no role in the problems of the world and many writers--the aesthetes--had begun their own retreat into the purely aesthetic sentiments they thought they saw in music. A cartoon of the period showed Tennyson reading his poems to an audience consisting solely of an enraptured Queen Victoria sitting at the opposite end of a long palace drawing room. The world of the artist was closed off from the offenses of the world outside...
...most tantalizing dissonances is the work of the superb actors, who keep insinuating real pathos and depth beneath the gaudy surfaces of their dirty-cartoon-strip characters: one lost, soulful look from Marcello, one hurt glance from Andrea Ferreol (the actress who plays, unforgettably, the concupiscent schoolteacher who outlasts them all), and the eaters who are bent on turning themselves into trash become momentarily sympathetic--real people that we feel can still be "saved." Convulsed by laughter that chokes, we're depleted by movie's end, having been through a cathartic, unlovely experience: the orgy as death...
...Administration also launched a publicity campaign, featuring a specially drawn Snoopy cartoon, to get consumers to save energy. Key recommendation: all householders should turn their thermostats four degrees lower than usual; if they do, the nation will save 400,000 barrels of heating...
...room word for old Mickey Mouse watches-are moving from the camp boutiques to Parke-Bernet, and a New York art dealer named Bernard Danenberg has contracted with Walt Disney Productions to exhibit "eels" (the clear plastic sheets on which final animation drawings are made) from a new Disney cartoon, Robin Hood. This migration of Disney's iconography from masscult to the commercial fringes of "high" art (it happened to Norman Rockwell last year) will be prodded along by a 7½-lb. tome entitled The Art of Walt Disney, written by English Art Critic Christopher Finch with...
ANIMAL FARM, adapted, through improvisation, mime, and "Chamber Theater style narration," from George Orwell. There was a cartoon version of Animal Farm made years ago by some Trotskyist or Cold Warrior who tacked on an ending in which the animals throw the pigs out and live happily ever after. This is fine for the animals, but piss-poor for the movie. This version, however, is merely "a devastating attack on the pig-headed rulers of an imaginary totalitatian state." Pig-headed, get it? Opens tonight at 8 at the Boston Repertory Theater, Marlboro and Berkeley Streets in Boston, in repertory...